What are the dynamics and history?

The logical discipline of psychopathology was founded by Karl Jaspers in 1913. It was

referred to as "static understanding" and its purpose was to graphically recreate the "mental

phenomenon" experienced by the client.

Initial metaphors for mental illnesses were influenced by religious belief and superstition.

Psychological conditions that are now classified as mental disorders were initially attributed to

possessions by evil spirits, demons, and the devil. This idea was widely accepted up until the

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Individuals who had these so-called "possessions" were

tortured as treatment or as Foucault outlines in the History of Madness: viewed as seers.

The Greek physician Hippocrates was one of the first to reject the idea that mental

disorders were caused by possession of demons or the devil. He firmly believed the symptoms of

mental disorders were due to diseases originating in the brain. Hippocrates suspected that these

states of insanity were due to imbalances of fluids in the body. He identified these fluids to be

four in particular: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and calmness. This later became the basis of the

chemical imbalance theory used widely within the present.

In the nineteenth century, greatly influenced by Rousseau's ideas and philosophy,

Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud would bring about psychotherapy and become the father

of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a

patient and a psychoanalyst. Talking therapy would originate from his ideas on the individual's

experiences and the natural human efforts to make sense of the world and life

Dynamics of psychopathology:
 A psychological approach or system affirming that human acts are understandable and

predictable only through an analysis of the previous experiences and motivational states of the

organism rather than through a simple description of the objective stimuli temporally preceding

human acts compare psychoanalysis.

The study of psychopathology is interdisciplinary, with contributions coming

from clinical psychology, abnormal psychology, social psychology, and developmental

psychology, as well as neuropsychology and other psychology subdisciplines. 

Psychological dynamics; emotional interpretative tendency that affects the internal

dialogue related to a meaningful event may influence the development of positive or negative

outcomes after stressor events.

Most research on affective instability and psychopathology focuses on borderline

personality disorder (BPD). Although a number of other mood and anxiety disorders are

conceptualized as disorders of distress or emotion dysregulation, BPD is the only disorder for

which affective instability is a specific diagnostic criterion (American Psychiatric Association

[APA], 2013).